Thryve & Caspar: Digital Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation is no longer confined to clinics. Caspar Health, a leading provider of digital rehabilitation, is proving that patients can recover effectively through personalized programs delivered online. Yet scaling digital rehab came with major hurdles: how to track outcomes objectively, motivate patients to stay active, and demonstrate results to payors. To overcome these challenges, Caspar partnered with Thryve to integrate wearable health data into its care model.

The Partnership: 

Caspar Health delivers rehabilitation and aftercare programs to patients across Europe and Asia, focusing on conditions like orthopedic recovery, obesity, and mental health. Its digital platform enables patients to access expert guidance, therapy exercises, and coaching sessions remotely. But without objective activity data, Caspar’s therapists had limited visibility into patient progress, and payors lacked the evidence they needed to evaluate outcomes. Thryve’s role was to provide the technology backbone that made reliable, real-world data accessible, transforming Caspar’s vision into measurable practice.

The Challenge: 

Caspar wanted to make its rehabilitation programs both more personalized and more provable. The main barriers included:

• Reliance on Self-Reporting: Patients often misreported or forgot to track their daily activity, leading to inaccurate assessments.
• Device Fragmentation: Developing individual integrations for Apple, Fitbit, Garmin, and others would slow down innovation.
• Outcome Transparency: Payors and providers demanded objective proof of progress to justify reimbursement.
• Scalability: Caspar’s global growth strategy required a solution that could work seamlessly across regions and device ecosystems.

The Solution: Wearable Data Integration 

By integrating Thryve’s SDK and APIs, Caspar unlocked the ability to connect with hundreds of wearables instantly without months of custom development. Thryve’s infrastructure provided:

• Continuous Activity Monitoring: Steps, movement intensity, and exercise adherence tracked objectively
• 24/7 Patient Insights: Therapists gained a real-time view of how patients followed prescribed rehab activities
• Adaptive Programs: Rehab plans adjusted automatically based on patient progress
• Secure, Compliant Data Handling: GDPR and international standards ensured safe use of sensitive health data

With these capabilities, Caspar’s therapists could go beyond patient self-reports to tailor care based on real-world behavior.

The Results:

Caspar’s work shows how digital health providers can make rehabilitation more accessible, personalized, and measurable. By embedding wearable insights, Caspar improved not only patient recovery but also its ability to demonstrate value to insurers, supporting its expansion in Europe and Asia. For Thryve, this partnership highlights the transformative role of real-world health data in scaling digital therapies.

The collaboration delivered meaningful improvements for Caspar’s digital rehab model:

• 18% increase in patient physical activity through better motivation and tracking
• Higher adherence to rehab exercises thanks to objective monitoring
• Improved payer confidence with transparent outcome data

Full details, including engagement metrics and case-specific results, are available in the complete case study PDF.